Bug 2254643 (CVE-2023-50472)

Summary:	CVE-2023-50472 cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_SetValuestring
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	bbuckingham, bcourt, ehelms, jsherril, lzap, mhulan, nmoumoul, orabin, pcreech, rchan
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Bug Depends On:	2254649, 2254650, 2254651
Bug Blocks:	2254638

Description Robb Gatica 2023-12-15 00:38:15 UTC

cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c.

https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/803

Comment 2 Robb Gatica 2023-12-15 00:48:31 UTC

Created cjson tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2254649]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2254650]

Comment 4 Eric Helms 2024-01-26 16:34:28 UTC

According to https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/releases/tag/v1.7.17 this has been fixed upstream.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-06-26 15:56:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2025:9838 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9838